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[Miss_Croft]

For those of you who believe reading about an exotic animal will make you want to keep one – STOP READING and go onto a different thread. For those of you who want to learn more about the Australian herps by leveraging all available information – keep on reading.

Here in the US we have horned lizards – they are very similar to the Australian thorny devil as in the wild they predominately only eat one type of ants – harvester ants.

Anyways it is not illegal to keep horned lizards in some states and people have learnt how to keep them as a pet. Here is a forum on the horned lizard – it might help a little if you are thinking about the logistics of keeping thorny devils.

http://forums.kingsnake.com/forum.php?catid=52

A little about keeping them as pets
http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Lizard,%20Horned%20Toad.htm

As mentioned before like many Australian animals there is no incentive to learning how to keep or breeding the Australian animals.

My guess is you will be able to supplement their food with just about any small insect that will crawl up to them (pinhead crickets, flightless fruit flies and even small mealworms. I am sure they will make great pets if the Australian authorities allowed them as house hold pets.